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Jin Xiao

金宵

Jin Xiao is a female giant panda born on 2018-09-01 at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding. She is registered under studbook number 1110 in the global giant panda studbook system, and remains alive as of the most recent official population update. She is the offspring of Bai Yun (studbook number 649) and Xiao Jiao (studbook number 819). Both of her parents are captive-bred giant pandas housed long-term at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding. Currently living at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in Chengdu, Sichuan, China, he... she participates in the base’s captive breeding education program, and is a subject of ongoing giant panda behavioral research supported by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. As a human-habituated captive giant panda, Jin Xiao displays typical foraging and climbing traits of the species, spending most of her daily activity feeding on bamboo. She is a popular attraction for domestic and international visitors to the base, and contributes to public awareness of giant panda conservation, which has seen the species reclassified from Endangered to Vulnerable by the IUCN.